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Coaching Skills for Mentors
VIII. Create a Climate of Coaching on Your Campus
Mar 03, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
Mentoring is one way to use coaching. Coaching skills can be applied to teaching, advising, and to other aspects of your campus communities.
VII. Champion, Challenge, and Create Accountability
Feb 25, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
Learn about the coaching skills of championing, challenging, and creating accountability for coaching agreements.
VI. Tame the Negative Self-Talk or Inner Critic
Feb 18, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
As you begin to notice the ways that negative self-criticism disempowers the person you're coaching, call out self-defeating narratives and challenge them.
V. Create a Vision of the Future: The Future Scholar
Feb 11, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
As a coach, your job is to help your coachee articulate a vision for his or her academic career. Try the Future Scholar visualization exercise.
IV. Identify Signature Strengths and Core Values
Feb 04, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
A coach's job is to help individuals make conscious choices that align with their signature strengths and core values.
III. Listen Actively and Ask Powerful Questions
Jan 28, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
As a coach, your job is not to impart knowledge or solve problems. Your job is to elicit solutions from the person you're coaching.
II. Design and Cultivate the Coaching Relationship
Jan 21, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
It is important to design the relationship with the person you are coaching based on goals, desired outcomes, and mutually agreed upon ground rules.
I. Coaching as a Model for Mentoring Faculty
Jan 14, 2016 Kathryn Kleypas
What is coaching and how can it improve upon the mentoring already provided on your campus?
